5 Best Plugins For Your WordPress Website

When it comes to developing a WordPress website, one can get confused over numerous plugins but too many plugins can actually increase the load time of your web design in Brampton. So how can you use plugins in your favor without overwhelming your site? Many a times you must have heard about “must-have” plugins, to be honest nothing like this exists but there are some essential plugins to know about.

In this blog, we will discuss on how each plugin can help you and we will also provide with alternative for these too.

Sucuri (Website Security, Protection & Monitoring)

For any online business owner, security must be a top priority. Sucuri is one such plugin that can help with this, it monitors as well as protect your site from malware threats, XSS attacks or basically any type of attack.

Sucuri offers a bunch of features that can help in securing your website, these includes:

Virtual patching against security issues

Blacklist monitoring

Mitigation against DDoS attacks

Malware scanning and removal

One of the best feature Sucuri is to not log in anyone on your site unless you have whitelist the IP address.

Sucuri can save you a lot of time and money but if you are in a pinch or just starting out, there are some free plugin you can use to improve the security of your website.

The free version of Sucuri provides malware scanning and auditing. You can also use Wordfence, although it is free it can hog up your resource. Another thing we will suggest is to use a Login No Captcha reCAPTCHA plugin, which will add captcha box on your login page.

W3 Total Cache (Web Performance Optimization)

W3 Total Cache is one of the most popular plugin for WordPress sites. This improves the user experience of your site by increasing the website performance and reducing the load time by content delivery network (CDN) integration. One of the most popular web host agnostic framework, these has many benefits:

Improved search engine ranking

Better conversion rates and site performance

Optimized rendering

Reduced Load time

Some of the Key Features of W3 Total Cache:

Compatible with shared hosting

Mobile Support

Transparent CDN

AMP support

SSL support

Caching of pages, CSS, JS, database objects and much more on disk or CDN

Reverse Proxy

Although W3 Total Cache has a free and a pro version, if you want to try something new, there are alternative like WP Fastest Cache and WP Super Cache.

Yoast SEO

Creating a website is not enough, SEO is important too. Although WordPress is SEO friendly but there is a lot you can do to increase your website traffic using SEO best practices. Yoast SEO offers the most extensive solution with all the features and tools that helps in improving your on-page SEO. This helps in adding meta tags, connecting site to Google Search Console, generate sitemaps and much more. Another feature of Yoast is its Redirect feature that creates 301 redirects.

Other than Yoast, you can also try All In One SEO too. It has similar features like the page level control, XML Sitemap, Image attachment page redirects and so on.

Social Snap (Social Media Sharing Plugin)

Today, social media app has gained popularity and this has a potential to drive traffic to your site. So, making a content that is eye-catchy for the same does makes sense. Social Snap is one such plugin for WordPress which can help you here. It can:

Add social sharing buttons on the inline buttons, stick bars, widgets or on images.

Customize button’s look to make it stand out

Choose from more than 30 social networks

Choose the title/description of the articles to share on the social platforms

Social Snap has extensive feature set, if you are new, you may not need all of it. Social Warfare Plugin is an alternative with a few features you can use, if you are just starting.

Constant Contact ( Marketing Plugin)

One of the most effective and reliable marketing tool is Email. For many this may come as a surprise as many deem social media the best for this purpose. However, email can help you stay in touch with your users and thus it is strongly recommended that every business owner start to build their email list right away.

Constant Contact is one of the most popular email marketing service tool. It helps in building email lists and send extraordinary email newsletter.

One alternative to Constant Contact is MailChimp. You can get up to 2000 contacts and around 10,000 emails for free per month and has a customized email template with detailed analysis.

If you are still in confusion about what plugin is right for your website, contact Enterprise Web Cloud. We develop WordPress sites all according to your business needs.